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<span class=large>THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES</span>
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CHAPTER 6
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Apostles choose seven to assist them—Stephen transfigured before the Sanhedrin.
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And</span> in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/6/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Widows.">widows</a> were <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/6/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Apathy; TG Welfare.">neglected</a> in the daily <sup>c</sup><a href="acts/6/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="Acts 4: 35.">ministration</a>.
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Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples <i>unto them,</i> and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.
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Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/6/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Honesty; TG Priesthood, Qualifying for.">honest</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/6/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Tim. 3: 7.">report</a>, full of the Holy Ghost and <sup>c</sup><a href="acts/6/3c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Holy Ghost, Gifts of.">wisdom</a>, whom we may appoint over this <sup>d</sup><a href="acts/6/3d" mark="d" type="A" title="D&C 107: 68 (14, 68).">business</a>.
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But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/6/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mark 16: 15 (15-19); D&C 107: 8.">ministry</a> of the word.
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&#182; And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/6/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Called of God.">chose</a> Stephen, a man full of faith and of the <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/6/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Holy Ghost, Gifts of.">Holy</a> Ghost, and <sup>c</sup><a href="acts/6/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="Acts 21: 8.">Philip</a>, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
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Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/6/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Church Organization; TG Hands, Laying on of; TG Priesthood; TG Priesthood, Authority.">laid</a> <i>their</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/6/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Setting Apart.">hands</a> on them.
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And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/6/7a" mark="a" type="C" title="John 12: 42; TG Priests.">priests</a> were obedient to the faith.
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And Stephen, full of faith and <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/6/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Priesthood, Power of.">power</a>, did great wonders and <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/6/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Miracles.">miracles</a> among the people.
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&#182; Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called <i>the synagogue</i> of the <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/6/9a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR Freed-men.">Libertines</a>, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/6/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Disputations.">disputing</a> with Stephen.
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And they were not able to resist the <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/6/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 54: 17; Luke 21: 15; D&C 100: 5 (5-6).">wisdom</a> and the spirit by which he spake.
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Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/6/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Blasphemy.">blasphemous</a> words against Moses, and <i>against</i> God.
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And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon <i>him,</i> and caught him, and brought <i>him</i> to the council,
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And set up <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/6/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Slander.">false</a> witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
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For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/6/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 21: 21.">customs</a> which Moses delivered us.
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And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/6/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hel. 5: 36.">face</a> of an <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/6/15b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Angels.">angel</a>.
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